Racing News

Loving Gaby retires to Phoenix broodmare band, no stallion chosen as yet

Dual Group 1 winner Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible) has been retired after her campaign geared towards the $15 million The Everest (1200m) was thwarted due to injury, with owners Phoenix Thoroughbreds said to add the prized filly to their burgeoning broodmare band. Trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace announced on Twitter yesterday that Loving... Read More

Triumphant Prince rules the Ebor roost

York win impresses RV handicapper Carpenter Fujaira Prince (Pivotal) became just the second favourite since 1998 and the first since Purple Moon (Galileo) in 2007 to land Europe’s richest handicap, York’s Ebor (1m 6f), and set up a potential trip to Australia for a tilt at the Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m). The Roger Varian-trained... Read More

Funstar Epsom-bound but is it the Golden Eagle or a Cox Plate after that?

Olly Koolman, the part-owner of Group 1-winning mare Funstar (Adelaide), has warned that the Chris Waller-trained four-year-old is not at her peak for her seasonal return in the Show County Quality (Gr 3, 1200m) while her spring swansong remains up in the air. The Flight Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) winner, who took out the Phar... Read More

Global G1 Races 2020

RACE COUNTRY COURSE DATE DISTANCE (TURF/DIRT) AGE SEX/CONDITIONS PRIZEMONEY (USD) Secretariat Stakes USA AP 15 August 2020 8 Furlongs (T) 3YO $500,000 Beverly D. S. USA AP 15 August 2020 9.5 Furlongs (T) 3YO & Up F&M $600,000 Arlington Million XXXVIII Stakes USA AP 15 August 2020 10 Furlongs (T) 3YO & Up $1,000,000 Alabama... Read More

Domestic Black-Type Calendar 2020

Meeting Details State Race Name Distance Group Type Age Sex/Conditions 20th August 2020 Hawkesbury NSW Rowley Mile 1600m Listed 3YO & Up Handicap 22nd August 2020 Royal Randwick NSW Winx Stakes 1400m Group 1 3YO & Up WFA 22nd August 2020 Royal Randwick NSW Silver Shadow Stakes 1200m Group 2 3YO Fillies SWP 22nd August... Read More

Magical breezes to victory in the Tattersalls Gold Cup

A Group 1 that should have been run two months earlier, a mare who was supposed to be in the breeding shed, an absent trainer and a jockey making the most of another Covid-19-inspired opportunity. The 2020 Tattersalls Gold Cup (Gr 1, 1m 2f) was unconventional in many respects, although not in its outcome. Magical... Read More